Archive - The Roots of Progress

Links and short notes, 2025-01-20

New magazines and podcasts, the printing press and the Internet, the ultimate form of travel, grand plans for San Francisco, an AI tutor for Nigeria…

Jan 20 •

How sci-fi can have drama without dystopia or doomerism

Eight ways to have conflict in a future we actually want to live in

Jan 17 •

Links and short notes, 2025-01-13

Comments on the wildfires, why kissing a nuclear waste cask is fine, one weird trick to fight NIMBYs, the case of the missing statues, Eli Dourado's…

Jan 13 •

December 2024

What RPI and I were up to in the eighth year of this project

Dec 31, 2024 •

Links and short notes, 2024-12-27

Clinical trial abundance, an AI course assistant, grid-scale fusion, “Live Gloriously,” off-grid solar for data centers, permitting vs. compliance…

Dec 27, 2024 •

A progress policy agenda

My wishlist of policy goals to advance scientific, technological, and economic progress

Dec 19, 2024 •

Links and short notes, 2024-12-16

Brain mapping, walkable cities, progress on the curriculum, and much more

Dec 16, 2024 •

Biological risk from the mirror world

A new article voices concern about a line of research which could create a grave threat to humanity

Dec 12, 2024 •

The Life Well-Lived, part 2

Chapter 4 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto

Dec 10, 2024 •

November 2024

October 2024

Big tech transitions are slow

With implications for AI

Oct 24, 2024 •

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